Deaths are pretty common in Game of Thrones, but apparently a sequence set in the North – against the White Walkers, perhaps? – will "likely prove fatal for at least one character".

Could this be the cliffhanger of season seven? It's not like the show is afraid of ending a season with a character's life in the balance (hi, Jon Snow!).

But before we get to season eight, season seven will see Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) finally reach Westeros, and writer and producer Bryan Cogman has also teased how that changes the show.

"Dany in Westeros makes Game of Thrones a new show. It has this amazing ripple effect throughout every storyline that's very exciting to explore. There's a pace and urgency that's very palpable. This is the endgame," he explained.

"In one battle scene we set more stuntmen on fire than have ever been simultaneously set on fire," showrunner David Benioff enthused. "Our stunt coordinator really wanted to get in the Guinness World Records for this."

Game of Thrones finally returns to our screens on July 16 in the US on HBO, simulcast in the early hours of July 17 in the UK on Sky Atlantic.